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In today's Biochemistry lecture our Professors showed us a protein structure and explored it using a Virtual Reality headset in real time. An ultramodern way to learn! Kyle Belozerov

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York University in Fall

A gamechanger? That’s the hope say YorkU - Science Profs Ozzy Mermut & William Pietro. Their goal is to one day fly the new biosensor device over the Brazilian rainforest to inspect the effect of industrialization & climate on plant life toronto.citynews.ca/2022/11/24/yor… via CityNews Toronto

“It feels like a dream to be involved in this scientific process as it unfolds in front of us. It’s a really unique opportunity to be exposed to technology that is so novel & so fresh,” YorkU - Science student Karina Kofman Karina Kofman tells CityNews Toronto toronto.citynews.ca/2022/11/24/yor…

.YorkU - Science Profs Ozzy Mermut & William Pietro talk to CityNews Toronto Nick Westoll about their new portable biosensor device which they hope will help assess the health of crops as well as the Amazon rainforest in the the future toronto.citynews.ca/2022/11/24/yor…

Meet Karina Kofman, a YorkU - Science student & President’s Ambassador whose favourite part of her role as an ambassador is getting to "show school spirit & network" at #YorkU events. Learn more about the President's Ambassador program: bit.ly/PresAmbass | #MeetYU

Brand new preprint, fresh off the press. Thank you Michael Levin for the absolute best mentorship and support!

Congrats to our Biology graduates Karina Kofman (right) and Claire Del Zotto. Karina won our Faculty of Science Gold Medal. Claire was awarded our Silver Medal. We're so proud of you!

Check out this really cool piece: Michael Levin Michael Levin's groundbreaking research in cellular intelligence, bioelectrical communication, and embodied minds is poised to revolutionize our understanding of biology and even consciousness. newatlas.com/biology/levin-…

Final version of Karina Kofman's meta-analysis of ion channel drugs that facilitate or suppress cancer is out: "Bioelectric pharmacology of cancer: A systematic review of ion channel drugs affecting the cancer phenotype" authors.elsevier.com/a/1jOmoI6VGxADk

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New preprint, Karina Kofman osf.io/preprints/osf/… "Robustness of the Mind-Body Interface: case studies of unconventional information flow in the multiscale living architecture"

Martin Picard Some cases possibly relevant to that idea: osf.io/preprints/osf/… Karina Kofman

What - you've already read all the new recent preprints? ok, starting on the new batch (over the next few days). First up, with David and Guillermo Campitelli : Chess is thought of as a game of strategic thinking based on rich prior experience with chess games, and planning

New preprint:  arxiv.org/abs/2505.15849 Reed Bender, Karina Kofman, and Blaise Agüera (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social)  "What Lives? A meta-analysis of diverse opinions on the definition of life" We asked a set of current interdisciplinary scientists for a <3 sentence definition of "life" (or an argument

What is "Life"...? In a new preprint with Michael Levin, Karina Kofman, and Blaise Agüera (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social), we used LLMs to map the semantic space emerging from 68 expert-provided definitions for "Life". Here's what we did, what we found, and what it means for what lives... 1/n